OldLady
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It's hard to believe, I agree. Here's an article. It happened.No, she didn't make it up. Now, my Aunt Hilda, SHE might have made something like that up, but not Dot.....
Believe it or not, my aunt who attended school in Connecticut REALLY got it: they stood in line at school and got their tonsils snipped out--just like that--no anesthesia, no hospital admission, no NOTHING......
Yeeeeaaaaaah...I'm gonna go with "not." Don't be so gullible.
YeeeeeEEEEeeeeaaaaAAAaaaah...are you interested in buying a bridge?
The humble tonsillectomy has been at the center of controversies over practice variation, inappropriate surgery and avoidable harm for decades; indeed, well before the terms to describe those problems were formally articulated. Now, thanks to the recently unearthedTonsillectomy Riots of 1906, you can add âpatient empowermentâ and âinformed consentâ to that list...
From the viewpoint of the befuddled Board of Health, this debacle was likely filed under the heading, âNo good deed goes unpunished.â After tonsillitis reportedly kept scores of Jewish students out of school, the principal recommended the children have tonsillectomies. (The idea of a contagious sore throat was apparently not part of folk wisdom at the time.) When mothers complained they couldnât afford either the doctorâs fee or taking time off to go see one, physicians were asked to perform tonsillectomies at the schools. Days before the riot, doctors had performed 83 tonsillectomies at one elementary school. Thatâs when the trouble began.
The English-language press reported that the operations all had parental consent. But the Yiddish press told of children sent home with slips of paper their parents couldnât read using terms they couldnât understand even when translated.
âAll they knew was that when the children returned home from school after their procedures, they did so drooling mouthfuls of blood, barely able to speak,âTablet related. âShocked, their parents asked what happened. âDoctors cut our throats,â the children replied.â
Remembering the Tonsillectomy Riots - The Health Care Blog